My thanks to Barry and his fight4 team, to Pauline and to all those fight4 members who for 6.5 years battled against all the odds against that faceless, unelected qango and eventually won the unwinnab ...

I too would love to be there but I live in Oz and my health decrees that long distance travel is over for me but I will be there in spirit,....and yes,...11/11/11 most certainly is a special day and i ...

There appears to be a number of people on various forums asking why the VC wasn't awarded,....one answer was the fact that there were no witnesses,...so I gess it was a case of the dead not being able ...

Yes Steve, I am sure there will be questions as to why Cpl Pun wasn't awarded the VC and rightly so, and I am equally sure that those responsible will have the answers for any questions thrown at them ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393355/Hero-Gurkha-handed-bravery-medal-Queen-said-I-thought-I-going-die--I-tried-kill-I-could.html


Reading the Daily Mail story, I would sugest Corporal ...

Terry
The WRVS were in Labuan.
Paul

And in Sarawak

It is good to have the fight4 site up and running again, ....thanks guys,...great job

Today’s electronic Daily Mail said these guys are not fit to shine a soldier’s boots so why would I need their permission to wear a medal?…..anyway, HM gave that permission 40 years ago and that ...

Methinks the civil servants could well try to make a big deal of this one :-


Yes, it is sad that this should happen but as MB says, we have to see how the Telegraph story unfolds and lets hope t ...

Signed, ....and I have posted the link to my Regimental forum together with this one, ..... I knew the husband of the Para's widow who wrote this and I hope you will all feel as I do and will want to ...

Strange coincidence, or what?.... for Bill Speakman VC to be mentioned on this forum at this time,….only last night Prince Charles introduce a programme on the TV called Victoria Cross,….. Bill wa ...

See this newspaper report.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24920703-601,00.html

See another Aussie VC winner here....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Payne

Take note ...

I am a resident of Australia but in the past I have written to my old UK home town member Angela Browning (Con Tiverton). She did acknowledge my letter but failed to sign the EDM356 or support us in a ...

As a very grateful pjm'er I echo everything that has been said here so get well quickly Jock,....the PJM organizetion needs you on parade. KenN

Having been in Oz for many years, I had quite forgotten how blindly bureaucratic the public service in UK can be, as a consequence I have been quietly following this fight for a couple of years now an ...